The Fractals of Finance: Richard Brennan on Complex Adaptive Markets and the Real OODA Loop

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Richard Brennan discusses the unpredictability of markets and the importance of aligning with price rather than predicting it.

Send us Fan Mail Most investors lose because they are running a predictive model in a system that punishes prediction. Richard Brennan has spent decades building the alternative: align with price instead of predicting it. Richard Brennan is a trend follower, complex adaptive systems researcher, and author of The Fractals of Finance and Complex Adaptive Markets. He joins Mark McGrath and Brian "Ponch" Rivera on No Way Out for a conversation about why the market cannot be predicted, why it can ...

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Hosts: Mark McGrath, Brian "Ponch" Rivera

Guest: Richard Brennan

Topics covered

• finance
• investing
• market prediction
• complex adaptive systems
• trend following

Keywords

• finance
• investing
• market prediction
• complex adaptive systems
• trend following
• Richard Brennan

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Books & works: The Fractals of Finance, Complex Adaptive Markets

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